My ongoing theme is always the truth, as I see it, and the exposure of lies, deception and manipulation wherever they exist. I remain firmly convinced that the world can no longer resist its innate urge to unite and co-operate with one another and we are very close to the point where war can no longer be an option if this transformation is to occur. Website: allenroland.com Email: allen@allenroland.com

Monday, November 23, 2015

A heart centered cause versus symptom rehabilitation approach,
fueled by gratitude and forgiveness, for active duty veterans suffering from
PTSD has been implemented at the Concord Vets Center with great success. Under
the direction of Salvador Ueda, MSW, and the encouragement of team leader, Jeff
Jewell ~ a total of 18 Band of Brother's transformation support groups have
been accomplished with well over 100 veteran graduates in the last five years.
I have helped both initiate and implement this program as a heart centered
volunteer consultant with my ability to connect the heart dots of their
individual life charts and utilize my proven self-healing exercises and Kindle
book as a guide for their self-healing: Allen L Roland, PhD

Since
the driving force of my self-healing heart centered consultations is gratitude,
it is with heart felt gratitude that I thank the Concord Vet Center and in
particular adjustment counselor Salvador Ueda for suggesting andgiving me the opportunity,
as a fully vetted VA volunteer consultant, to share my truth and help
facilitate and build a successful Healing the Wounded Heart transformation
program over the past five years ~ but
particularly in 2015.

It's
been an incredible personal joy to witness with Sal the heartwarming
transformations that occurred as many of these emotionally wounded veterans
burst into full flower by going through their fears and finding joy beneath
their deep pain and despair. We literally saw the light come on as they began
to see through different eyes.

This
outside the box program is simple and effective but it all starts with the
adjustment counselorSal Uedawho initially screens each applicant and
determines if they are ready for this inner transformation self-healing work.
Sal then has each veteran complete a life chart, as described in my book,which summarizes their life in terms of being a
quest versus a struggle. At the same time they begin to read my book as well as
watch my You Tube sessions.

And here's a link to the YouTube Skype
sessions of the self-healingprocess I teach ~ Watch, in the first 20 minutesof session five, how
Marina conquers her deepest fear by going through itand she demonstrates that beneath her pain and fear isboundless joy.Seevideohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12MoNnwPKg&feature=youtu.be

My
book is a passionate call to heal your heart by surrendering to love. Initially
by sharing gratitude with the many people in your life who have not been thanked for
being a gift ~ and then all others as you open your heart and begin to not only
see through different eyes but also slowly reconnect with your original joy,
intention and purpose.

It
is important to note here that all of my work over the past 45 years, both in
my private practice and now as a heart based coach and consultant, has been
inspired by my desire to demonstrate my Unified Field ~ that deepest
within us, even below our deepest pain is a psychic energy field of love, joy
and soul consciousness (The Unified Field) which exists not only beyond time
and space but also beneath our deepest fears, and whose principle property is
the universal urge to unite.

Note
~ If you google The Unified field ~ you will find my explanation on page
two of 7.5 million results.

I
have answered an important question I posed long ago when I started my practice
~ Why are most people afraid of theirJoy ?

The
answer is because their psychic pain, quite often experienced at birth or early
childhood, has over ridden their original joyful memories and they are afraid
of or mistrust their deepest joy and are living their life and stillmaking life
decisions based on ego basedfear.

In
the third tenet of my PhD dissertation, The Unified Field, Idescribe
the process by which psychic pain(the
seeming separation from love)can
over-ride joy and how most people are afraid of or mistrust their deepest joy
~ It would appear that the pain of not feeling loved for oneself and being
seemingly separated from our original state of soul consciousness and the
Unified Field is of such deep psychic proportions that, early in childhood,
processes are triggered in the hypothalamus which result in a left brain
imbalance and dominance as well as the denial, mistrust and forgetting of our
connection to the Unified Field and the love and joy and a state of soul
consciousness deepest within us. It
is from this dark tunnel of pain, aloneness, despair and apparent death that
the ego and ego consciousness is born - for survival and protection purposes
only.

In
my role as a heart centered consultant with over 45 years' experience of soul
retrieval especially with veterans with PTSD, I retrieve buried souls and
empower them through love and gratefulness to not onlyopen their hearts but to also find their unique place in a universal
loving plan from a place of celebration and service.They soon begin to realize that everything they have ever wanted is on
the other side of fear.

Here
are the eight stages of ego transcendence I demonstrate and teach. Remember
that the ego is a projection of what we feel we have to be versus being our
true authentic self ~ and it is always born out of deep pain and aloneness.

1.
DenialEverything is fine, there is nothing missing in my life ~ I'm in
full control of everything

2.
Anger I can't stay in control and manipulate things
any more ~ it's not working, it's making me angry.

3.
Bargaining I'll hang on to something so I won't get out of control
and have to deal with the unknown and all those scary feelings deep inside me
that I have been continually avoiding.

4.
Depression Why am I feeling so sad, and it feels so deep. If only I
could get out of this pit of despair.

5.
Acceptance / Connection I'm feeling deep sadness and it's the same
feelings I felt as a child ~ I can't deny these feelings any longer.

6.
Surrender I'm
letting go and trusting that there is joy beneath my sadness ~ what is this
excitement I'm feeling beneath this well of grief and it has nothing to do with
someone else.

7.
Celebration I'mtruly feelingthe joy of being myself and the growing awareness that
there is something I'm supposed to be doing ~ I'm beginning to trust the
unknown and see through different eyes.

8.
Service I'm fully trusting myself, I'm listening and I'm
responding to this inner call ~ I want to be in service from this inner place
of authentic love, joy and delight.

Make
no mistake about it, the keys to the magic kingdom of the soul are gratefulness
and forgiveness ~ and eventually gratefulness and forgiveness ends with our
self.

Sal and I
meet these veterans from a joyful place of celebration and service and invite
them to finally take their turn!

And
what group of people have been more separated from love and the life force than
combat veterans (many of whom had significant birth and childhood trauma) and
have additionally been taught to hate and kill.

Initially,
I review their completed Life chart and help Sal connect the soul dots ~ a
lifechart which clearly shows their whole
life, relationships and war experience as a Quest or journey to where they are
now.

From
our very first session, they begin the process of thanking the people who have
been there in their lives and as they do ~ like flowers, their buried or
numbed out hearts begin to open allowing them to see through different eyes.

I
then assist Sal in the remaining group sessions,
with the veterans, using the sessions in my
book as the guide ~ including the
experiential exercises.

For
example, the last session is a death exercise where every member has the chance
to seemingly die and have each member tell them how much they meant to them as
well as share from their heart with eachother. In
other words, in that exercise they not only experience being loved but the
thrill of speaking from their hearts.

It's
not therapy but it is self-healing and every participant is given the
opportunity to explore another heart centered choice of behaviorversus a fear based ego driven choice. Team leader Jeff Jewell was very impressed by
this self-healing process but could not find the time to make it happen for
himself but his support was evident to allparticipants.

In
2015,I have concentrated on empowering and
mentoring Sal Ueda, at his suggestion, to not only see through his heart but connect the dots so that
he could carry the programon without my
assistance. This work, in essence, is all about
soul retrieval for these veterans, who were once taught to kill,are now being reconnected to their deeper urge to
love and cooperate with each other

Dr
Stanley Krippner describes this process in the foreword of my book ~ "No
psychiatric manual lists "soul loss" as a condition in need of
treatment but shamans tell me that "soul loss" is widespread in
contemporary society. Allen Roland has had the insight to understand what the
shamans have told me. He also has developed the skills to help his clients
regain their souls"

Nowhere
is "soul loss" more
apparent than with veterans who have been taught to killor witnessed or participated in unjustified
mass human carnage.

Band
of Brothers #18 was my last hurrah as a volunteer consultant with the Vet
Centerbut I leave with an immense sense of
self-satisfaction regardingthis unique heart centered approach to
self-healing.This program has not only
succeeded ~ with wellover 100 active
veteran graduates whohave positively
changed through gratefulness and self-forgiveness ~ but more importantly, their
hearts have been opened and they have experienced anotherchoice of behaviorwhile
their PTSD symptoms have greatly diminished.

It
remains to be seen if the VA will integrate this self-healing approach into
their clinical approach but it is obvious that no amount of psychiatric drugs
can ease the painful psychic pain carried by many of our returning veterans
with PTSD ~ as witnessed by the rising
veteran suicide rate.

Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s No. 2
officer, who has long been an advocate for soldiers suffering from the
invisible wounds of war (such as PTSD and TBI) ~ also advocates the need for
other alternative approaches ~ ” I want to understand what drugs we should
use to treat these symptoms, if we should use any drugs at all. I want to look
into alternative pain management. We are finding there are other ways to handle
pain that are more effective and allow a person to feel a lot better than
throwing a bagful of drugs at them.” See http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/23/unsaid-issue-behind-veterans-rising-suicide-rate-is-shame-based-guilt/

As
a former active duty Naval aviator and carrier pilot who served seven years in
the Navy, the last two as a weekend warrior ~ I can honestly relate to veterans
and consider it an honor to have touched many of their hearts in my work as a
heart centered consultant.

They
have all, including myself, faced their deepest fears and been in service to
their country. Many have been to the dark side and long for another choice and
I am proud to have facilitated that process in my ongoing heart centered
consultations.

There
is no true healing without love and gratitude is the life blood of soul
consciousness.

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it
could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
~ A.A. Milne,
Winnie-the-Pooh

Heart
centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L Roland can
be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary on hisweb logand
websiteallenroland.com. He is also featured
columnist on Veterans Today and guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK
onwww.conscioustalk.net

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“There are many things to be grateful “for” but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing” ~ Michael Mohoney

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About Me

I'm a disabled active duty Navy veteran who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived my dreams, including being a Navy carrier fighter pilot. I found myself by fully opening my heart, wrote three books, sired four children and I'm still living my ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of celebration and service. My 1998 PhD dissertation on the UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Noetic Science and Common Boundary as one of the top three world finalists on combining psychology and spirituality. I retired from my private practice in 2014, because of my service connected asbestosis related lung disease, and live in Antioch, California but still remain involved as a featured columnist on Veterans Today and heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor ~ particularly with combat veterans with PTSD as well as others with PTHD ( Post Traumatic Heart Disorder).